Talent Events Lead - BrightDrop HQ - Mountain View - BrightDrop HQ - Mountain View

Job Description

GM is undergoing a major transformation to reach our vision of a world with zero crashes, zero emissions and zero congestion. Our Global Talent Acquisition (GTA) team is influencing this work by seeking innovative individuals to join our team and help reach our mission.

The Role:

The Talent Events Lead oversees the coordination, logistics, results and strategies of conferences and events to drive awareness, engagement and attraction of top, diverse tech talent. This position enables talent acquisition with a pipeline of talent who are engaged with General Motors and strengthens our positioning as a global employer of choice.

Responsibilities:

• Leads GM’s talent attraction events and activations in a project management role from strategy planning, activation, and analysis of performance for conference and events
• Manages relationships for GTA with vendors associated with event activation fulfillment, including event logistics, assets/inventory, swag, and other resources to create compelling event experiences
• Works in close partnership with GTA delivery leads, marketing, communications, and business partners to ensure strategies are being developed and performed to drive engagement and attraction of key talent audiences through events and conferences
• Manages events and conference budget including forecast and reviewing historical trends to positively influence future event strategies
• Serves as primary point of contact for talent event requests and needs, and responds to needs in a timely manner
• Analyzes, monitors, and reports on actionable event insights and trends to assess performance and engagement for event and conference talent attraction results
• Works in close partnership with GM’s global talent brand team to utilize compelling branding and interactive experiences at events attract top, diverse talent and build positive employer brand reputation
• Researches and presents new opportunities and trends to optimize event performance for key talent audiences
• Serves as a talent event leader in staying current and sharing emerging opportunities, trends, and best practices
• Creates and maintains event calendar to offer real-time management of active and future events to share with GTA, marketing, communications, and business partners
• Utilizes CRM and other technologies to create mechanisms to capture talent at events and drive pre-event and post-event engagement to maximize prospective talent experience from event activations
• Works in close partnership with talent marketing, DEI and ERG leaders to reach and engage with diverse talent
• Develops and deliver compelling campaigns to re-engage previous event leads for talent pipelining

Additional Job Description

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of required experience in marketing, event planning or recruiting related field
• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, business or related field preferred
• Experience required with event planning logistics and vendor relationship management
• Strong skills in maintaining budget
• Preferred experience working in events and conferences in the tech space
• Experience with social/digital media programs, including social amplification platforms, content management systems (CMS) or candidate relationship management (CRM)
• Strong social and communications skills (verbal and written) with excellent organizational skills, time management and priority setting

This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to our local office (Mountain View, Detroit, or Austin) three times per week, at minimum.

GM DOES NOT PROVIDE IMMIGRATION-RELATED SPONSORSHIP FOR THIS ROLE. DO NOT APPLY FOR THIS ROLE IF YOU WILL NEED GM IMMIGRATION SPONSORSHIP (e.g., H-1B, TN, STEM OPT, etc.) NOW OR IN THE FUTURE.

About GM

Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.

Why Join Us 

We aspire to be the most inclusive company in the world. We believe we all must make a choice every day – individually and collectively – to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Our Work Appropriately philosophy supports our foundation of inclusion and provides employees the flexibility to work where they can have the greatest impact on achieving our goals, dependent on role needs. Every day, we want every employee, no matter their background, ethnicity, preferences, or location, to feel they belong to one General Motors team.

Benefits Overview

The goal of the General Motors total rewards program is to support the health and well-being of you and your family. Our comprehensive compensation plan incudes, the following benefits, in addition to many others:
• Paid time off including vacation days, holidays, and parental leave for mothers, fathers and adoptive parents;
• Healthcare (including a triple tax advantaged health savings account and wellness incentive), dental, vision and life insurance plans to cover you and your family;
• Company and matching contributions to 401K savings plan to help you save for retirement;
• Global recognition program for peers and leaders to recognize and be recognized for results and behaviors that reflect our company values; 
• Tuition assistance and student loan refinancing;
• Discount on GM vehicles for you, your family and friends.

Diversity Information

General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that workforce diversity creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers.   We understand and embrace the variety through which people gain experiences whether through professional, personal, educational, or volunteer opportunities. GM is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statements

GM is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. GM is committed to providing a work environment free from unlawful discrimination and advancing equal employment opportunities for all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, all practices and decisions relating to terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, recruiting, hiring, training, promotion, discipline, compensation, benefits, and termination of employment are made without regard to an individual's protected characteristics. For purposes of this policy, “protected characteristics" include an individual's actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), gender identity or gender expression, sexual orientation, weight, height, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, protected medical condition as defined by applicable state or local law, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws and ordinances.  If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, email us at Careers.Accommodations@GM.com or call us at 800-865-7580. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.​